T4 to T3 Conversion

Paul is an active advocate for thyroid patients through his regular blog posts, which offer a wealth of information that both relate to his books as well as current news and insights.

This tag will be used for topics associated with the conversion from T4 (thyroxine) to T3 (triiodothyronine), in the body.

Some thyroid patients are good converters of T4 to T3. Some are not good and these thyroid patients often require different forms of thyroid medication other than Levothyroxine (Synthroid). They often need natural desiccated thyroid or medications containing some T3 (Liothyronine).

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Assessing Your T4 to T3 Conversion Capability: Are You A Good Enough Converter of T4? Do you have enough T3?

There is a blog post on Thyroid Patients Canada, written by thyroid patient advocate, Dr Tania S. Smith, on assessing ...

Autoimmune Protocols (AIPs) for Lowering Autoantibodies – May Not Be Right for Every Thyroid Patient

These days, there is a lot of focus on diet and supplements as a solution to autoimmune thyroid problems. The ...

Using SPINA-Thyr Software for Patients on No Thyroid Treatment or on Levothyroxine (T4) Only

SPINA-Thyr is a free diagnostic application, developed by Dr. Johannes Dietrich. The software application takes thyroid laboratory test values TSH, ...

Could Atrophic Thyroiditis Be Your Problem? It is Not Always About Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis

This article is based on a website post by fellow thyroid patient advocate, Dr Tania S. Smith. As I had ...

A Healthy Thyroid Gland Can Compensate for Poor T4 to T3 Conversion – Implications for Thyroid Treatment

I have listed a link below to an article by fellow thyroid patient advocate, Dr Tania S. Smith. It contains ...

The Hypothyroidism Numbers Trap: Thyroid Production of T4 and T3 and Conversion Rate of T4 to T3 is Not Fixed

This article is based on an excellent new blog post by the Canadian Thyroid Patient's group Dr. Tania S. Smith. ...

More T4 or T3 Thyroid Medication May Not Always Raise Patients’ FT3 Levels in Thyroid Hormone Treatment

This article may well be one of the most important ones that I have ever written. It is especially important ...

Principles and Practical Tips for FT4, FT3 and Reverse T3

This is from a post by Tania S. Smith on her website for Canadian thyroid patients. I have never been ...

Thyroid Hormones and Deiodinase Enzymes

Here are two more good articles from Dr. Tania Smith of the Canadian Thyroid Patients group.  I recommend these articles ...

The Thyroid System- What You Need to Know (& what your doctor may not know) – YouTube Video Blog 

My name is Paul Robinson. I am the author of three books on recovering from hypothyroidism: The Thyroid Patient's Manual, ...